Sadistic Intent & Ungod - (1998) Split 7''

"Sadistic Intent is a Death Metal horde hailing from Los Angeles, CA which was formed in the Fall of 1987. Taking influence by the original Death/Black Metal groups such as Slayer, Possessed, Dark Angel, Destruction, Venom, Sodom, Celtic Frost and so forth. The Cortez brothers went through a few line-ups in order to form the metaphorical puzzle which would articulate their vision into a reality.

Setting out to be an onslaught of extreme and obscure Metal, the musical journey began by exploring the newfound boundaries of speed as well as heaviness creating and molding the realm of Sadistic Intent. At a time when Death/Black Metal was no longer popular as it was in the mid 80’s due to the pioneering groups break ups, line-up changes or plain different directions to name a few reasons, Sadistic Intent were one of the handful of groups in the United States raising the flag of Death Metal! After a couple of rehearsal tapes and demos the band earned a name for itself in the international underground scene."

German primitive black metal. Formed in 1991 and was on hold between 2002 and 2008.

"This split is the best of both worlds, Black and Death metal. First up, Sadistic Intent with their track “Eternal Darkness”. A slow riff turns into their trademark death metal assault. The raw and underground sound of the recording really does add to the effect of the music, brutal vocals and furious drum blasts throughout the song.

Next, Ungod with their demonic track “Phallus Cult”. The sound is obviously very garage and at times messy but this band does deliver a ruthless dose of black metal. Ungod never fails to impress with their genuine aggressiveness and feel for this type of music. The song clocks in at 5:36 and has three or four tempo and riff changes throughout keeping the song interesting and just plain crushing.

Definitively this is a quality release, very hard to find, only 1000 copies made, but worth the effort of checking out, this will not disappoint you."

Merciless Records ‎– M.R.EP007

Sebadoh & Azalia Snail - (1991) Split 7''

Dark Beloved Cloud ‎– DBC001

 "Sebadoh is an indie-rock band originally formed in 1986 in Westfield, Massachusetts, by Dinosaur Jr. bass player Lou Barlow and Eric Gaffney. The band began as a side project, but when Barlow was kicked out of Dinosaur Jr in 1989, Sebadoh became his full-time concern."

"Azalia Snail is an American avant-garde singer-songwriter and musician. She is a multi-instrumentalist active in psych, folk, and indie rock and played a prominent role in the 1990’s lo-fi music scene. She was later dubbed the “Queen of lo-fi”."

Dark Beloved Cloud launched their label with this split 7”.

Sightings - (2000) Untitled 7''

Freedom From ‎– FF115

"Sightings is a New York City -based trio of musicians, operating on the boundaries of rock and avant-garde sounds. The lineup consists of Mark Morgan on guitar, Richard Hoffman on bass, and Jon Lockie on drums. The band debuted with this 7” on the Freedom From label."

This gives me the feeling of anxiety when I listen to this. Intense sound.

Slackjaw - (1995) Off The Cuff 7''

Maple Bar Recordings ‎– 9294001

Slackjaw have elements of other alternative bands from the 1990's. Most notably Smashing Pumpkins and aMiniature come to mind. Not well known, but their sound reminds me of the past and the bands from then.

Smog - (1994) A Hit 7''

City Slang ‎– DC38

Bill Callahan, born in Silver Spring, Maryland. Callahan followed the lo-fi genre of underground rock, with homemade tape-albums recorded on four track tape recorders. Later he signed a record contract with the label drag city.

Callahan started out as a highly experimental artist, utilizing sub-standard instruments and recording equipment. His reason for using the lo-fi approach was not so much an aesthetic choice, rather it came from his lack of knowledge of recording studios, and fear of giving up control to professional engineers.

Cindy Dall, an American lo-fi musician and photographer, was born in Sacramento, CA. She started recording and performing with then-boyfriend, Bill Callahan under his former moniker, Smog. She first appeared on the Smog song "Wine Stained Lips", which was a B-side to the 1994 "A Hit" 7" single.

Dall also gained notoriety in the fanzine world of the 1990s for her frequent transgressive-styled cover shots and appearances in Lisa Carver's Rollerderby magazine.

Cindy battled epilepsy, which might partially explain her inactivity as a musician after 2002. She also engaged in political activism around Sacramento, helping citizens register to vote.

Cindy died at her home in 4th Avenue, Sacramento on April 5, 2012.

Sportsguitar - (1995) Gong Gong 7''

Sub Pop ‎– SP 293

Sportsguitar is a Swisspop band, active since the early 90’s, that consists of Oliver Obert and (sometimes) Roland Saum. Their music sounds like a cross between Tullycraft and the Muppets’ Swedish Chef.

Swallowing Shit - (1996) Love Is The Act Of Being Moved Into Action 7''

Commode ‎– REACH-01

"Swallowing Shit was possibly one of the most extreme musical projects ever to come out of the prairie wasteland known as Winnipeg - unrelenting and hideous, their particular brand of political grindcore remains in a league of its own.

Swallowing Shit’s last show occurred June, 1997, at the West End Cultural Centre in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Picketed and stormed by nearly 300 Christians angered by their smash radio hit “Pro-Abortion, Anti-Christ”, the show signaled the end of an era in Winnipeg, as the band were subsequently banned from public performance by city council , citing an obscure and hitherto unenforced 103-year old civic ordinance criminalizing challenges to the authority of the Church within city limits.

Many of the ever-changing membership are still active in the Winnipeg music scene. Todd (guitar) plays bass for Propagandhi, Mike (vocals) sings for Putrescence and books shows in Winnipeg, Jahmeel (bass) is now based out of Vancouver and plays bass in numerous projects including the Black Halos and Cory (drums) is currently playing in a black metal project with other former members of Malefaction in Of Human Bondage."

The Aasee Lake - (1999) Two Song Introduction To A Suicide Note 7''

Nerd Rock Records No. 1

"The Aasee Lake were a (mostly) instrumental post-rock band formed in Louisville, Kentucky in the late 1990’s.
Musically they expanded on the themes created by Louisville band Slint, using clean undistorted guitars and sparse but powerful basslines. Smith’s jazz-inflected drumming was particularly noteworthy. Oddly they showed very little influence from the harcore bands the members had previously played in.
They released two 7” records in 1999, ‘Two Song Introduction to a Suicide Note’ which was released on Barlow and Andy Tinsley’s Nerd Rock Records, and a split with El Paso’s At the Drive-In, on Nerd Rock Records/ Ghetto Defendant.
Although they wrote and recorded enough songs for an album, it was never released and the band split up."

VA - (1995) Rugcore & Stary Eyed Records Comp. 7''

There basically is nothing about these bands nor these labels available on the internet.
Their history isn't apart of the internet and remains in the minds of the 1990's San Diego youth D.I.Y./ punk scene. Six bands in six minutes, lofi and great.
A1 The Crooks - Lid
A2 The Lames - Suburban Flophouse
A3 Maya: The Bee - Teen Death
A4 The Giving Tree - Monkey Song / Theme
A5 Powerdresser -  Death Above The Elbows
A6 Formerly Schlong - Minnie The Unit

Violent Ramp - (2002) ST 7''

Freedom From ‎– FF0200

"Violent Ramp serve up a vehement brand of brutal skatecore, punctuated by ear bleeding bursts of white noise and squealing feedback. But we shouldn’t expect anything less from a band that features Wolf Eyes alumni Aaron Dilloway (gtr/vox) and John Olson (drums), alongside Lovesick’s Michael Troutman (bass).

After releasing the Demo for Jay Adams CDR and Demo for Duane Peters cassette on Olson’s own American Tapes label, Violent Ramp issued a self-titled 7” on Freedom From in 2002."

This makes me wanna jump on a skateboard and go break a bone while thrashing.
Skate Or Die.

Witchypoo - (1998) Olympia Must Die 7''

Thin The Herd ‎– TTH 05

Considered and labeled as a "super group" due to the sheer number of rock and rollers that has rotated through this bands line-up over the years.
 I like this one:
"Hypnotic sludge from a Kill Rock Stars super group surprisingly eschews most northwest rock cliches. The vocals are somewhere between a chant and a moan, the guitars circle around, and random samples in the background add to the mystery."
This was their last single, I believe, consisting of Jessica Espeleta (Weird War, Love As Laughter),  Joe Preston (Melvins, Thrones, Earth, Harvey Milk, etc), Sarah Utter (The Bangs, Plastique), Slim Moon (who started Kill Rock Stars but interestingly, left in 2006 to take various positions working for Warner Music Group. In 2008 he started doing artist management full-time for Shotclock Management, a company he owns with his wife, Portia Sabin who is a cultural anthropologist with a Ph.D. & now runs KRS), and Zack Carlson (who has been confirmed, via email, as the same fellow who helped write the book Destroy All Movies: The Complete Guide to Punks on Film).

Anal Satan is a Melvins cover. Did I mention I was born in Pennsylvania?!? 
While trying to find out who owned/ ran Thin The Herd Records I came across two San Francisco Art Institute graduate's, Dit Cilinn  & David Ohlsson.

Xiu Xiu & This Song Is A Mess But So Am I - (2004) Split 7''

Oedipus Records ‎– OED-002

Experimental gloomy music by Morrissey fanatics.

THOR And The Ass Boys - (2000) THOR 7''

TPOS ‎– 123

Canadian Heavy Metal band from Vancouver, British Columbia founded in 1977 by Jon Mikl Thor.
CHEESY

Third World Planet & The Republic Of Freedom Fighters - (1996) Split 8.5'' Flexi

Diminutive ‎– DR 01, Break Even Records ‎– BE 064

Joey Casio - (2010) The Frame 7''

 K ‎– IPU CXXIX

"The Frame" is the third single by Joey Casio released by K, and the second in the International Pop Underground series (following 2009's "Debtor's Prism"). Casio continues to create something wholly new for this unsteady era. The longtime Olympian, and current Portlandian, reassembles the wired connections of white-hot punk energy and post-disco electronic dance music. "The Frame" finds Casio sharpening his edges rather than just running in place: you'll hear the calculated combination of dance and punk forms fused within a neon-lit matrix of percussion, including electronic strings, claps and bells and Casio's laconic delivery; a box inside a box. The b-side,"Rituals," is a tar pit of sound, pure disenfranchisement,remaining danceable while flirting with chaos.

VA - (2009) Fresh Cuts & Cigarette Burns 7''

 Criminal IQ ‎– CIQ038

Review auto translated from German to English:
33 rpm, 2 pages, 6 bands: FNU Ronnies, Sick Jump!, Kill The Hippies, The Curtains, White Load and Flying Trichecos have CIQ Records gathered here, and the mixture is wild: FNU Ronnies play intense vortex-noisy punk rock with DRI reminiscence while Sick Jump! very simple go to the point - primitive is an appropriate, non-negative-meaning description.

Kill The Hippies finally catch strangely funky, then aggressive unhooked. Sounds more after 1983 and The Dicks than after 2009. On the flipside, it goes with The Curtains more, the inferior a slight ska beat and remember something Subhumans (UK).

This is followed by White Load with nihilistic, hysterical noise pollution, and finally Flying Trichecos whose punk rock sounds very broken, over driven and brutal. Broken marching music, early Wire through the hardcore meat grinder rotated - nasty.

It may be that all current bands with new recordings, but would the compilation as Killed By Death EP sell, it would not it, that the songs do not originate from the early eighties.

Tracklist
A1 FNU Ronnies - Ain't No Place    
A2 Sick Jump! - Fuck Kids    
A3 Kill The Hippies - No Control But Dance Control    
B1 The Curtains - Hidden Agenda    
B2 White Load - Nothing Is Funny    
B3 Flying Trichecos - Recidivist